Quotes about soccer
soccer sports running
My workout was running down fly balls, stealing a base, or running for my life on the football field. Bo Jackson
soccer baseball football
I was always active - I went from baseball to football. I didn't have time to work out.
soccer football mother
If my mother put on a helmet and shoulder pads and a uniform that wasn't the same as the one I was wearing, I'd run over her if she was in my way. And I love my mother.
soccer player league
At nineteen I was pretty sure I was going to be a professional soccer player. At that time I played for one of the Norwegian premier leagues. But I tore ligaments in both knees, so I started studying business administration and economics and became a financial analyst, and I worked at a brokerage firm as a stockbroker. Jo Nesbo
soccer running player
I don't think I'll ever feel as famous or as popular as I felt when I was a 17-year-old soccer player in Modle. Only about 20,000 people live there and 12,000 of them come to every game. Running onto the pitch each week was just the most fantastic feeling. Nothing can beat that.
soccer baseball player
Now, modern economies have a very effective mechanism for deciding if salaries are really too high: it's called the free market. That's how most people's salaries are set, after all, including those of major-league baseball players and European soccer players. James Surowiecki
soccer school captains
I was a keen sportsman, and became school captain in soccer and cricket. John E. Walker
soccer player wanted
I wanted to be a soccer player. I knew that couldn't happen. John Oliver
soccer white snow
Northern Ireland were in white, which was quite appropriate because three inches of snow had to be cleared from the pitch before kick off John Motson
soccer games differences
The goals made such a difference to the way this game went
soccer might shots
That shot might not have been as good as it might have been
soccer winning looks
The match has become quite unpredictable, but it still looks as though Arsenal will win the cup
soccer might firsts
Not the first half you might have expected, even though the score might suggest that it was
soccer daughter jobs
I’ve always had this idea that if you’re going to try something, if you’re going to expend that first big block of effort and energy to participate - whether it’s riding the Tour de France or applying for a new job or coaching your daughter’s soccer team - you might as well go ahead and give whatever else it takes to win, I mean, I’m going to be there no matter what, right? Why not go ahead and get the victory? Johan Bruyneel
soccer football team
However good an English team is, they will always have an additional advantage. It is that European players know that their English opponents will come at them in the belief they will win, and they can always be guaranteed never to stop fighting. They have a natural aggression that they are born with. If it ever goes, English football will lose its most valuable dimension. Johan Cruijff
soccer football sorry
I felt sorry for the match ball - it came off the pitch crying.
soccer mistake hard
I don't make a lot of mistakes, because it's hard for me to be wrong
soccer football play
The most difficult thing about an easy match is to make a weak opponent play bad football.
soccer football simple
Football is a simple game. It's just very hard to play it simple.
soccer football strong
You know I don't think there will ever be a time when the English player is not respected, and feared, across the world of football. The English footballer is very brave and strong and committed and there is always enough high-class players in his team to cause concern in any opponent. It is a national characteristic.
soccer mistake effort
Actually I never make a mistake, because it takes a huge effort for me to make a mistake.
soccer football simple
Football is simple but the hardest thing to do is play simple football.
soccer sometimes happens
Sometimes something's got to happen before something is going to happen.
soccer winning games
Italians can't win the game against you, but you can lose the game against the Italians.
soccer team hard-work
Playing against 10 is harder than playing against 11 players. You know why? The team with 11 will think "ok, we can take it easy now", while the team with 10 will think "We really have to work hard now."
soccer disadvantages advantage
Every advantage has its disadvantage.
soccer hands cities
Officials from the soccer organization FIFA, which decides which cities get to host the World Cup, are accused of accepting bribes when making their decision. Of course the toughest part for the soccer officials was taking bribes without using their hands. Jimmy Fallon
soccer play watches
I love soccer. That's all I ever watch. I'll watch it all day if I can. But I'm too bloody old to play now. Geezer Butler
soccer country holiday
Everybody was waiting for Chelsea not to win every game and one day when we lose there will be a holiday in the country. But we are ready for that. Jose Mourinho
soccer football war
It is like when you go to war: we have to know how our enemies attack and defend.
soccer football play
We all want to play great music all the time, but if that is not possible, you have to hit as many right notes as you can.
soccer football fun
For me pressure is bird flu. I'm serious. I'm feeling a lot of pressure with the problem in Scotland. It's not fun and I'm more scared of it than football. Football is nothing compared with life. For me bird flu is the drama of the last few days. I'll have to buy a mask.
soccer football feet
It is like having a blanket that is too small for the bed, you pull the blanket up to keep your chest warm, and your feet stick out. I cannot buy a bigger blanket because the supermarket is closed. But the blanket I have is made of cashmere. So it's good.